Lamborn backs away from the ‘pimp’

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Great Americans can pose as pimps and videotape ACORN officials. They apparently can not pose as telephone repairmen and try to place wiretapping equipment in Senate offices — at least in the eyes of U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn.

The Colorado Springs Republican was among the sponsors of a resolution[2] honoring the “fact-finding” of James O’Keefe when the conservative filmmaker made an undercover video in which he and a woman posed as a pimp and a prostitute seeking tax advice from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. The video, in which ACORN staffers appeared to be offering the pair advice on concealing their occupations, resulted in lost federal funding for ACORN.

Now, after O’Keefe was arrested[3] for his role allegedly interfering with the telephones in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in downtown New Orleans, Lamborn and other Republicans who had hailed him, are rushing for the exits.

As the Associated Press Reports:

A Colorado Republican who praised a conservative now accused of trying to tamper with a U.S. senator’s office phones is backing away from the suspect.

Rep. Doug Lamborn sent reporters a statement Wednesday saying that the alleged break-in at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in New Orleans was “unacceptable and wrong.” Lamborn was one of 31 House Republicans who co-sponsored a resolution last fall praising one of the men now accused of the Landrieu break-in.

James O’Keefe posed as a pimp for a hidden-camera expose that damaged the reputation of the liberal community-organizing group ACORN.

Lamborn and other Republicans issued a statement that they don’t condone the illegal prank attempt at Landrieu’s office.